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kenny leoncito @kenesu.com · 25/07/2025

Aswang Hunters from the Philippines, hailing from Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas 🇵🇭 #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS #artph

Three filipino warriors dressed in armor isnpired by Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas. They are illuminated by an iridescent light

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ᴀᴋɴᴍ🎨 @akinomeka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ADVENT OF ATROCITIES an charging pterosaurian Manananggal & an awakened antediluvian archosauromorph, the Bakunawa, devoring the last Luna #artph #mythology #aswangjam2026

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

Digital illustrations of the prehistoric jawless fish Anglaspis, Doryaspis and Drepanaspis.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

(3/4) By the time I’d finished, I had become absolutely fascinated by these bizarre, ancient animals. Dinosaurs get all the attention (and yeah, they are cool) but it’s worth remembering that the story of prehistoric life is much richer and more complex.

Digital illustrations of the jawless fish Pteraspis and Rhinopteraspis, and the shark-like (though not a shark) Cladoselache.

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Old #paleoart depicting a small prehistoric equid dressed up as the racehorse American Pharoah. Eohippus was pretty small & would've given off more "small tapir or forest deer" vibes than this. I still like the idea though

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ᴀᴋɴᴍ🎨 @akinomeka.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

turned a quarter century old today, here's my fave ocs

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SIRMPD @mrdizzy.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

First post here i'm MPD i love draw cool stuff nice to meet you all!😁 สวัสดีจ้า จริงๆสมัครไว้นานจนเกือบลืมไปแล้ว555 ฝากตัวด้วยครับ จะค่อยๆลงงานเก่าและใหม่ๆ ในนี้และเพจเฟสด้วย

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SIRMPD @mrdizzy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Raptor rider I've never draw dinosaur before and to be honest it looked better in my head lol, oh well at least i did try. #art #fantasy #dinosaur

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

hello late #PortfolioDay !! I'm Avi! Full time artist, doing direction (and many other things) in animation, and paleoart in my free time. I'd be happy to work on scientific illustrations and reconstructions! I do both extant and extinct animals and i'm open for some work rn :) #sciart #paleoart

A large pterosaur Bogolubovia stands on the beach, framed by the dim light of the sun due to a solar eclipse. The sky feels high and is heavily covered with clouds. A solar halo can be seen - it's getting quite cold, and it might just be this pterosaur's last winter.

A digital drawing of Eohippus pair, doing the cute horse thing when they scratch and lick each others back. I thought that they could probably do that as well, like modern horses do now. They're colored light brown, with some white parts and warm shading. Almost all the head is white, they have pink noses and pink little hooves, and the main brown fur on their body is a mix of light and dark hairs, so it's quite contrasted. I actually took some inspo from hares for the colors. They stand on the dark background, a star is shining above them; next to the star are two little horses stylized sort of like cave paintings. It isn't anything i based this reconstruction of (also, it was too early for eohippus to be painted like this), just a little thing i wanted to try.

A digital drawing of Psittacosaurus sibiricus. There are three of them, running to the left, on a light beige background, all in different poses to study their anatomy in motion. One of them, in the middle, is a male - colored green, with bright red on his head and quills. He's brighter than other two, females, who are colored light brown. They also have a bright spot on the face, but it's yellow and doesn't stand out as much as red on the male.
I also gave them just a little, tiny bit of fuzz on the back and neck. It's barely visible and completely speculative, so take it with a grain of salt - I haven't seen it in other reconstructions. Overall, I really like how it turned out. They look silly enough to be good for me

A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Another ancient Greek vase from an alternative history in which humans were more gentle to the world around them. A group of Candiacervus, endemic Cretan deer, taking part in a spring festival. I imagine them as tame but not domesticated, like the famous deer in Nara, Japan.

Illustration in the style of ancient Greek vases. On a black background, a woman with long hair and flowing dress is sitting on a chair and offering leaves to a group of four prancing deer the size of dogs. There is a decorative border with swirling patterns underneath them. On the upper right corner, there is an image of a vase, on which the same illustration is overlain.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Third ancient Greek vase from an alternative timeline with less destructive humanity. In this religious scene, Athene, goddess of wisdom, carries a giant Cretan owl, one of the extinct endemic Cretan animals. They are trailed by little owls (Athene noctua), which is Athene’s symbol in real life.

Illustration mimicking those on ancient Greek vases with orange characters on a black background. It’s showing the goddess Athene as a woman clothed in flowing fabric with snakes reaching out from her back. She’s walking from left to right, holding her arms in front of her, a very large Cretan owl sitting on her hands and two little owls following them. There is also a young olive tree planted in a decorative pot, another of Athene’s symbols.

The same illustration of goddess Athene, three owls and an olive tree as in the previous image, now depicted on an ancient Greek two-handled amphora.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I've been drawing scenes of ancient Greeks interacting with endemic Cretan fauna, but Crete had an even older civilization - the Minoans. In this alternative version of the Bull-Leaping Fresco, people are dancing with and offering a drink to Candiacervus major, a large native deer of the island.

A drawing mimicking the Minoan Bull-Leaping Fresco found at Knossos Palace in Crete. On a turqoise background, a large deer is leaping into the air. On both sides of it, there are people drawn in the style of Minoan artwork, one dancing, the other holding an amphora, presumably about to offer a drink to the deer. The deer is Candiacervus major, an extinct species that lived on Crete in the Late Pleistocene, with very long and gracile limbs.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This is a piece done before our #paleostream formation series started, I did it for purely educational purposes. The Jialingjiang formation is for me one of the most interesting Triassic formations, not just because it's the only place where we find hupehsuchians. #paleoart #sciart #triassic

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光節 Guangjie @guangjie-lf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

2024年終作品總結 Art summary of 2024

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Results from the last #paleostream of the year! Acheronauta, Diatryma, Hadrosteus and Imperobator (wing mobility is rather speculative).

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Assortment of some of the heaviest birds that ever lived! #paleoart #birds #animals #art

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Jawless friends. Early Devonian fishes showing the astonishing diversity vertebrates had even back before the evolution of jaws. Based on 3D models by @villesinkkonen.bsky.social I'm amused by the warlike names of these small animals: spear-shield, knife-shield, Boreas's shield and sickle-shield.

Illustration of four Devonian jawless fishes on a grey-green background. Doryaspis has an armoured front part with a long, serrated "nose" and large scales covering its tail. Machairaspis has a wide, armoured head with a knife-like spike sticking straight up. Boreaspis is long and sleek, with three long spikes on its armoured head, and Drepanaspis is wide and flat, shaped somewhat like a table tennis racket.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If things had gone differently. Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, one of the several elephants that used to live on Mediterranean islands, greeting a baby in an Ancient Greek vase. Small island elephants around the world went extinct around the time of human arrival, but I wonder, what if they didn’t.

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Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Cool! :D I've also done a lot of art in that direction (tho I do a bunch of other things too)

The Phoenician queen Dido, standing inside a building richly decorated with wall paintings, some servants behind her. She is wearing a fine tunic with red borders and a purple girdle, and looks very majestic.

Illustration showing 4 young women dressed in white, in a Greco-Roman inspired room. 3 are sitting in a sort of trance, while the 4th is standing and lifting a smoking censer. Something mystical is going on.

Panoramic view of Thebe in ancient Egypt, with townhouses in the foreground and the Karnak temple complex and the Nile in the background.

Outside a fast food restaurant somewhere in ancient Rome. A customer is shouting angrily at the man serving the food, apparently complaining about the quality, while a crowd gathers around. The whole scene has a snapshot quality.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've been away, so am late to welcome folks fleeing X. For newbies: Hi, I'm Mark, I research, illustrate and write about extinct life, especially #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs. I'm known for my #paleoart and have consulted on, and designed creatures for, lots of your favourite dinosaur documentaries.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

'I'm Nobody' Kulindadromeus and Unicorn (With Emily Dickinson) Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm. A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲 Original artwork available at auction. 🙏 www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6j...

Pencil drawing of a Kulindadromeus looking quizzically up at a unicorn, who looks down with a gentle, melancholy expression. The drawing is accompanied by Emily Dickinson's lyric verse, written in a cursive hand:

'I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!'

Kulindadromeus is a small, herbivorous neornithischian dinosaur from the middle Jurassic. It's almost wholly covered in feather-like integument, excepting its scaly tail, limb extremities, and snout. Its overall appearance might be playfully described as a kind of bird-lizard-wallaby.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Ammonites - a great success story of Mesozoic seas. Inspired by watching Fran Vidaković's short talk on them in PaleoStreamCon, an online event organized by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social back in spring.

illustration of six different species of ammonites on a blue-green background

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

A very random drawing that combines two of my favourite things - palaeontology and Greece. An entelodont - a giant hoofed predator from about 20 million years ago - depicted in the style of the Bull-Leaping Fresco, a famous artwork from the Knossos Palace in Crete, painted some 3450 years ago.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

In a world full of complicated problems and bad news, it's good to once in a while do something that's simply nice - such as draw dinosaurs and share them with others. Miragaia and Kentrosaurus, approximately to scale with each other and the 180 cm tall human silhouette.

Illustration of two dinosaurs on a yellow background, with a human silhouette for scale. The dinosaurs are Miragaia and Kentrosaurus, herbivores with plates and spines on their back and tail.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The rhinos we have and the ones we lost. In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Where did our lost rhinos roam? Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene. These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart

Illustration of extinct narrow-nosed rhino with a map in the background showing it lived in central and southern Europe, northern Africa and some way into western Asia

Illustration of ”Siberian unicorn” or Elasmotherium sibiricum with a map on the background showing it lived in Eastern Europe and central Asia

Illustration of a woolly rhinoceros with a map in the background showing it had a very wide distribution from southwestern Europe all the way through Europe and Russia to the Pacific coast and northern China.

Illustration of a merck’s rhinoceros with a map in the background showing it lived in a large area from southwestern and central Europe to western Asia, parts of Siberia and northern and eastern China.

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James Gurney Art @jamesgurneyart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I created this painting "Dinosaur Parade" in 1990, before I invented the whole concept of Dinotopia. I just wanted to give a glimpse of a lost empire that humans shared with peaceful dinosaurs. Jumping through that picture frame and living inside the painting changed my life.

Framed painting of Dinosaur Parade by James Gurney

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James Gurney Art @jamesgurneyart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There were two versions of Waterfall City. The first was in "Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time" (1992). The second was called "Waterfall City: Afternoon Light, published in "D: Journey to Chandara" (2007). So....Which BTS would you like to see tomorrow: prelim sketches, maquettes, or plein-airs?

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光節 Guangjie @guangjie-lf.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

🦋First Bluesky art train 🚂🧑‍🎨 Thank you @herbeherbe.bsky.social for the tagging ! I like to draw historical OCs, mainly Chinese history for now~ 🦋tags: @ccjzsbs9.bsky.social @eunuchboy.bsky.social @bobaklepon.bsky.social @exiaax.bsky.social @akinomeka.bsky.social

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

A while ago I did a short series of illustrations showing extinct species coexisting with still living ones in my home country of Brazil, as would have happened around 15-10k years ago. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

A Notiomastodon, relative of today's elephants, walks through a marsh waving a stick to scare away a group of broad-snouted caiman, while a jabiru stork watches from its perch on a log.

A pair of Doedicurus, car-sized heavily armored armadillo relatives, watches as a jaguar passes them by. A red-legged seriema stands on top of one of their shells.

A maned wolf stands between a pair of feeding Eremotherium, giant ground sloths, holding one of the wolf-apples (a fruit native to the region) that has fallen due to the sloths' diturbance of the trees.

A scenic view of a small lake surrounded by tropical vegetation, representing what Central Brazil would be like 15,000 years ago. Pictured are the extinct species: Smilodon, Notiomastodon, Xenorhinotherium, Eremotherium and the empty shell of a Glyptodon, as well as the still-living species: broad-snouted caiman, jabiru stork, nine-banded armadillo, caracara, and caatinga parakeets.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

'Princess Joveta sends her grateful thanks to her friend the great Khan for his kind gift of her new pet Velociraptor, with whom she is delighted. Isambart now responds to his name, is taking well to training, and bids fair to becoming a very fine hunter.'

Brown pencil drawing of a lady in fine robes and a headscarf walking a feathered Velociraptor on a leash.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Results from the Flocking #paleostream Lambeosaurus, Microraptor, Innovatiocaris and Haplocheirus.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Just noticed that Bluesky has now drag and drop! Which means I will probably be more active here now ^^ Here the results from yesterdays #paleostream: Drepanosaurus, Ostenoselache, Schinderhannes and Cronopio.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Results of the last #SharkWeek #paleostream! Hagenoselache, Edaphodon, Titanonarke and Onychoselache.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

I really like painting ammonites. They really fit the "Endless forms most beautiful..." quote. :3 Here some recent examples, not even the weirdest ones.

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ᴀᴋɴᴍ🎨 @akinomeka.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

[my fictional #dino] Januscephale courtship & Arboreal Amour

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